This Thursday edition is available to all Loaded Question readers. Be sure to subscribe to unlock 55 more questions every week! Earlier this week I sat down and wrote nearly 100 opera questions to prep for this weekend’s WQC (as well as prepare for future International Culture Challenge matches), and now you get a little taste of those opera questions. How can you pretend to be pretentious if you can’t answer opera questions? Hopefully this quiz will help you find local singles in your aria.
1. Marie Wittich refused to perform the "Dance of the Seven Veils" at the 1905 debut of what Richard Strauss opera?
2. What opera debuted during the Carnival season in Mantua in 1607?
3. In Act 2 of "La boheme", what singer character performs a namesake waltz? This character prays at the end of the opera.
4. What is the name of the ruler of the kingdom in the 1921 opera "The Love for Three Oranges" by Prokofiev, and what nickname is given to the Countess in an 1890 opera by Tchaikovsky?
5. What surname is shared by Alessandro, who founded the Neapolitian school of opera, and his son Domenico, who wrote 555 keyboard sonata?
6. What title Wagner operatic character loves Princess Elisabeth and receives God's forgiveness after his death?
7. What art form features four main role types: sheng (gentlemen), dan (women), jing (rough men),and chou (clowns)?
8. What American composer composed "Four Saints in Three Acts", a 1928 opera with the first all-Black cast? He also composed "The Mother of Us All", an opera about Susan B. Anthony.
9. Hanna Glawari is the title wealthy woman of what opera by Franz Lehar?
10. What Latin term for a general servant is found in the name of a "Barber of Seville" aria?
11. The King of Sweden or the Governor of Boston are assassinated in the title event of what Verdi opera, the only staged opera performance of Marian Anderson?
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1. Marie Wittich refused to perform the "Dance of the Seven Veils" at the 1905 debut of what Richard Strauss opera? Salome
2. What opera debuted during the Carnival season in Mantua in 1607? L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi
3. In Act 2 of "La boheme", what singer character performs a namesake waltz? This character prays at the end of the opera. Musetta
4. What is the name of the ruler of the kingdom in the 1921 opera "The Love for Three Oranges" by Prokofiev, and what nickname is given to the Countess in an 1890 opera by Tchaikovsky? King of Clubs, Queen of Spades
5. What surname is shared by Alessandro, who founded the Neapolitian school of opera, and his son Domenico, who wrote 555 keyboard sonata? Scarlatti
6. What title Wagner operatic character loves Princess Elisabeth and receives God's forgiveness after his death? Tannhauser
7. What art form features four main role types: sheng (gentlemen), dan (women), jing (rough men),and chou (clowns)? Peking opera / Beijing opera / Jingju
8. What American composer composed "Four Saints in Three Acts", a 1928 opera with the first all-Black cast? He also composed "The Mother of Us All", an opera about Susan B. Anthony. Virgil Thomson
9. Hanna Glawari is the title wealthy woman of what opera by Franz Lehar? The Merry Widow
10. What Latin term for a general servant is found in the name of a "Barber of Seville" aria? Factotum
11. The King of Sweden or the Governor of Boston are assassinated in the title event of what Verdi opera, the only staged opera performance of Marian Anderson? Un Ballo in Maschera (The Masked Ball)